List of sights in Berlin
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List of sights in Berlin
Berlin grew out of the historic city centre, the Nikolai quarter, its sister town of Cölln, the settlements founded by the Elector, such as Dorotheenstadt or Friedrichstadt and finally the creation of Greater Berlin in 1920, when the hitherto independent towns of Spandau, Charlottenburg or Cöpenick were merged with the old Berlin to form a city of four million inhabitants. This decentralised historical development has resulted in a plethora of sights in Berlin today – not just in the centre of the city, but also in the outlying boroughs.
For various reasons the main symbol of the city is the Brandenburg Gate; its unmissable landmarks are the Berlin TV tower in Mitte and the broadcasting tower on exhibition land in Westend.
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Selected sights
Berlin-wide
- Historic cemeteries in Berlin
- Religious buildings in Berlin
- Windmills in Berlin
- Fountains in Berlin
A symbol of freedom, peace and tolerance among cultures and religions.
East Centre (Mitte)
- Museum Island
- Berlin Cathedral
- Lustgarten
- Granitschale im Lustgarten
- Jungfern Bridge
- Unter den Linden: boulevard with numerous historic buildings
- Neue Wache
- Berline Singakademie/Maxim Gorki Theatre
- Alte Kommandantur, head office of Bertelsmann
- Zeughaus (Deutsches Historisches Museum)
- Berlin State Opera
- Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great
- St. Hedwig’s Cathedral
- Old Library (locally known as the: Kommode)
- Humboldt University
- Berlin State Library (to end of 1991 Deutsche Staatsbibliothek)
- Schloss Bridge
- Schloßplatz
- Russian Embassy
- Madame Tussauds Berlin
- Brandenburg Gate and Pariser Platz
- Alexanderplatz and Nikolai quarter
- TV tower
- World Clock
- Haus des Lehrers
- Red City Hall (Rotes Rathaus) and Neptune Fountain
- St. Mary's Church
- St. Nicholas' Church
- Marx-Engels Forum
- Dom Aquaree
- Hanf Museum
- East Germany Museum
- Holy Ghost Chapel
- Alte Stadtmauer in the Klosterstraße
- Karl-Marx-Allee
- Friedrichstraße, next to the Kurfürstendamm Berlin's greatest shopping mile
- Galeries Lafayette and many other shops
- Checkpoint Charlie
- Friedrichstadt Palast
- Gendarmenmarkt
- Konzerthaus Berlin (formerly the Schauspielhaus)
- German Cathedral
- French Cathedral
- Spandauer Vorstadt
- Oranienburger Straße
- Kunsthaus Tacheles
- Postfuhramt
- New Synagogue
- Große Hamburger Straße, with Old Jewish Cemetery
- Sophienstraße with the Sophienkirche
- Hackesche Höfe
- Hackescher Markt
- Hamburger Bahnhof
- Museum of Natural History
- Volksbühne
West Centre
- Tiergarten
- Around the Kurfürstendamm
- Europa-Center
- Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (memorial and new building)
- Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe)
- Kranzler Eck
- Theater des Westens
- Weltkugel Fountain
- Zoological Garden
- Miscellaneous
- Deutsche Oper Berlin
- Luckhardt Villa, Westend Heerstraße
- Messe exhibition hall with radio tower and the International Congress Centre (ICC)
- Charlottenburg Town Hall
- Berggruen Museum
- Charlottenburg Palace
The New Berlin around Potsdamer Platz
- Potsdamer Platz
- Sony Centre with the Film Museum and Emperor Hall (Kaiser-Saal)
- Daimler Quarter with Potsdamer Platz Arcades, Bluemax (in the former IMAX Berlin), Theater am Potsdamer Platz and the Spielbank Berlin
- Kulturforum
- Philharmonie and Chamber Music Hall
- Museum of Musical Instruments
- New National Gallery
- Art Gallery
- Berlin State Library (Haus 2)
- St. Matthew's Church
- Leipziger Platz
- Museum of Communications (former Postal Museum), Leipziger Straße /corner of Mauerstraße
- German Museum of Technology, Trebbiner Straße
- Tempodrom (with the Liquidrom)
Government quarter
- Regierungsviertel
- Reichstag (Bundestag)
- Paul Löbe Haus
- Marie Elisabeth Lüders Haus
- Jakob Kaiser Haus
- Federal chancellery
- Embassy quarter by the Tiergarten
- Swiss Embassy
- Nordic Embassies
- Berlin Hauptbahnhof
Outlying areas
North
- Amtsgericht Wedding
- Bogensee
- Brotfabrik
- Bürgerpark Berlin-Pankow
- Jewish Cemetery, Berlin-Weißensee
- Pankow Town Hall
- Schönhausen Palace
- Schönholz Heath
- Tegel House
- Weißer See in Weißensee
East
- Molecule Man
- Oberbaum Bridge
- East Side Gallery
- Biesdorf House
- Gründerzeit Museum
- Dorf Marzahn with its post mill
- Kienberg with the Erholungspark Marzahn and the exhibition there: "Gardens of the World"
- Tierpark and Friedrichsfelde House
- Treptower Park with the Archenhold Observatory and Soviet War Memorial
- Köpenick Old Town (Altstadt) with Rathaus (see also: Hauptmann von Köpenick)
- Köpenick Palace with the Kunstgewerbemuseum, castle church and Schlossinsel
- Friedrichshagen Waterworks (in the engine hall of the Museum im Wasserwerk) at the Großen Müggelsee
- Müggelberge with Müggelturm and Teufelssee
- German-Russian Museum
- Wuhlheide, public park and leisure and recreation centre with the Berlin Park Railway
- Stasi Museum in the former Stasi Ministry
- Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial (former Stasi prison)
Southeast
South
- Askania Watch Manufacturers
- Britzer Garten
- Ceciliengärten
- Gropiusstadt
- Hufeisensiedlung
- Insulaner hill with the Planetarium and the Wilhelm Foerster Observatory
- Kaisereiche
- Südgelände Nature Park
- Tempelhof Airport with the Airlift Memorial
- Victoria Park on Kreuzberg
Southwest
- Botanical Gardens
- Wannsee
- Lilienthal-monument in Lichterfelde
- Lichterfelde West
- Grunewald Hunting Lodge
- Grunewald Tower at the Havelchaussee
- Monument at Schildhorn to Jaxa von Köpenick
- Flensburg Lion
- Glienicke Hunting Lodge
- Glienicke Palace with park and Glienicke Bridge
- Pfaueninsel
- Düppel Museum Village
- Philological Library of the Free University of Berlin
- Liebermann Villa
- Bierpinsel
West
- Berlin Olympic Village (formerly the Reich Sports Fields or Reichssportfeld), with the Olympic Stadium, Bell Tower, Maifeld, Forest Stage and the Sports Forum
- Ruhleben Water Meadows, Murellenberge, Murellenschlucht and Schanzenwald
- Tiefwerder, Tiefwerder Meadows, Stößensee
- Spandau Citadel with its monuments on Victory Avenue (Siegesallee)
- Spandau's Old Town (Altstadt) with its church and town hall
Museums
Monuments and memorial sites
- The Neue Wache Unter den Linden – to victims of war (Napoleonic wars, 1WW, 2WW)
- Berlin monuments at the Royal Porcelain Factory in Berlin
- National Bismarck Monument
- Beethoven-Haydn-Mozart Monument
- Count von Moltke monument at the Victory Column
- Memorial to those murdered by the Nazi Military Judiciary at the Murellenberg in Ruhleben
- The Berlin Wall Memorial in Bernauer Straße.
- The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial to the victims of Communist oppression in Germany in the former central Stasi Investigation Centre of the GDR.
- Stasi Museum
- Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great
- Memorial to those Shot Down by Anti-Aircraft Artillery
- Airlift Monument
- Memorial of the 17 June 1953
- Old Garrison Cemetery
- The Holocaust Memorial, Germany’s monument to the murdered Jews of Europe, completed in May 2005 in Berlin. The memorial site has 2711 concrete steles as well as underground exhibition rooms.
- The so-called Wannsee Conference took place in the villa at Am Großen Wannsee 56−58 on 20 January 1942, the “final solution to the Jewish question“. Today it is a memorial site.
- The memorial site to the victims of euthanasia in Berlin, Tiergarten-Straße. The memorial comprises two large curved steel sheets by Richard Serra. An inscription by the Senate with information in a memorial tablet on the adjacent path (see the Nazi Euthanasia Programme).
- Plötzensee Prison, looked after by the Memorial to the German Resistance. In the place of execution at Plötzensee almost 3,000 people were murdered between 1933 and 1945 by hanging or by guillotine. This memorial site recalls especially the death of resistance fighters in the 20 July plot.
- Prussian National Monument for the Liberation Wars
- Soviet War Memorial in the Großer Tiergarten, Mitte, Straße des 17. Juni
- Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Treptow-Köpenick, Park the gefallenen Soldaten
- Soviet War Memorial in the Schönholz Heath, Pankow
See also
External links
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